1957 Directed by Roger Corman
A group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, only to get stranded when their airplane mysteriously explodes. The team soon discovers that the tests have given rise to crabs mutated into intelligent, impervious, telepathic giants intent on increasing their numbers by breeding, then travelling to populated areas to feed, and which do not intend to be stopped by their discoverers.
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title leaves out that these mfs also eat brains and do telepathic body snatcher shit. nothing but respect for my large sons
If you hold a crab up to your ear, you can hear what it's like to be attacked by a crab.
Grab a crab crap by Roger Corman.
It's always fun to see what ol' Rog is able to make on a sub $ 100k budget. I think it's pretty impressive actually. Who cares that the titular crab monsters look absolutely atrocious. Seeing the strings that hold them up is what makes this movie charming. Too bad that a lot of it is kinda dull. This definitely would've benefited from some nudity, but I understand that we weren't there yet. Pamela Duncan does walk around in a very nice one-piece swimsuit however. 🔥
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"Roger came to me and said, 'I want to make a picture called Attack of the Giant Crabs and I asked, 'Does it have to be atomic radiation?' He responded, 'Yes.' He said it was an experiment. 'I want suspense or action in every scene. No kind of scene without suspense or action.' His trick was saying it was an experiment, which it wasn't. He just didn't want to bother cutting out the other scenes, which he would do" - Charles Griffith describing the process on the script of this film.
This film was released as a double feature with "Not Of This Earth" and it makes sense…
"Attack of the Crab Monsters" is a classic Roger Corman picture that highlights his recipe for filmmaking. It features an awesome, catchy title that is underpinned by a simple yet efficient script. It had a bare bones budget and was probably filmed and edited inside a week; and then sent out for release the following week. Rinse, repeat.
This film follows that recipe to a tee. As with most of Corman's films this was obviously born from the idea of the title. And a script was then quickly written to fit around the framework of a monstrous crab. The story is fairly standard for a creature feature. A group of scientists arrive on a island that's been subject to nuclear…
And the lord said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the Earth. Both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them."
A research team comprised of scientists arrives on a remote island barely breached by mankind to study the effects of nearby nuclear bomb tests at sea. The first thing they notice is the lack of wildlife. Within minutes of arriving, a deckhand falls overboard from a small boat and loses his head to something under the waves. The crew attempts to leave but their sea plane mystery explodes. Stranded, it doesn't take long until they discover what decapitated their…
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GIANT CRAB DOUBLE FEATURE, part one 🦀🎉
"Once they were men, now they are land crabs." Really makes ya think.
What makes this movie great is these aren't just giant radiation crabs who chase you around an island, they're giant radiation crabs who TALK TO YOU IN YOUR DEAD, EATEN FRIEND'S VOICE while chasing you around an island! Who's the crab rangoon now, bitch! And they make lovely pottery with their... crab heat rays. See, these crabs like to eat people including their brains and because <science mumble>, they absorb the person they eat into their crabness so they're like zombie…
"Once they were men. Now they are land crabs."
In look and tone this has to have been one of the primary inspirations for Joe Dante's Mant, but unlike that film this has a surprising lot of flavorful complications thrown into its central premise, especially given that it's just barely over an hour long. These Crab Monsters aren't simply atomically mutated giant crabs, but molecularly unstable brain-eaters that can absorb humans' minds and then communicate with other humans by transmitting their psyches through metal objects (!!). They also manage to somehow use regular-sized sticks of dynamite to blow up their island form in order to trap their prey, but unfortunately this is not depicted on screen -- not even Roger Corman could figure out a way to visually convey a 40-foot crab monster lighting a stick of dynamite with its claws.
Charles B. Griffith provides a charming anecdote in Roger Corman's autobiography, in which he describes being excited by Jacques Cousteau and inspired to direct the underwater photography of Crab Monsters. Corman puts Griffith on the spot to teach the actors how to dive, and Griffith in turn gets Jonathan Haze to teach him right before they arrive. Evidently no one drowned, but I recall the story fondly every time I see Griffith's sailor fall into the water and lose his head.
While Creature from the Haunted Sea remains my favourite Griffith script, there are few cinematic moments that fully encapsulate his wit and offbeat humour than the youthful voice that the giant crab uses to menace our doomed explorers.
Now this is a B movie if I ever saw one. All the way from the actors to the effects, it screams smaller budget.
It's not a terrible movie, but I can't deny I wasn't very interested in any of the events. Again, the characters and their motivations are pretty flat. It takes a while for the crab to show up too.
They have this interesting ability to communicate telepathically with the voices of their victims. Pretty neat idea and it tricks more than one person in the group. The violence is relatively brutal too, if sparse.
However, the effects of the crabs themselves are pretty weak. At one point you can see the crab lifting its eyelid, and the material used looks so fragile.
Only worth taking a look at if you're a completionist like myself, and even then I don't strongly recommend.
